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Reviews

Flight: The Genius of Birds

Flight: The Genius of Birds
is the first episode in Illustra Media's new series The Design of Life.
They are going to be hard-pressed to top the sheer beauty of the photography and
animations found in their first movie. Although the series is about design, the
video doesn't wallop you over the head about the design aspects. Instead, the
designs of flight are quite obvious just from the very informative topics
covered. I have been lending out my copy of the video to about 10 people, most
of whom are scientists, and even the skeptics have been really impressed
with the quality and content. More...

Darwin's Doubt

Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
is the new book by Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute. The book's title is taken
from Charles' Darwin's concern that his theory could not explain the lack of
potential ancestors of animals appearing prior to what has been called the
Cambrian explosion. During this brief period of time (~10 million years),
numerous phyla (the highest classification scheme below "kingdom") of complex animals with novel body plans suddenly appeared from
nowhere. Although additional classes of animals appeared subsequent to the
Cambrian explosion, all animal phyla (both extant and extinct) originated at
that time. So, is the Cambrian explosion still a problem for neo-Darwinian
evolution? More...

Evolution vs. God

Ray Comfort's new movie,
Evolution vs. God: Shaking the Foundations of Faith
is an attempt to show that evolution requires more faith than theism. Through a
series of highly edited interviews with scientists and students, Comfort hopes
to show that the foundations of evolution do not hold up. However, the movie is
more likely to be believed by gullible young earth creationists than serious
scientists or atheists. The primary format of the movie consists of snippets of
interviews—mostly of young college students who didn't really seem to know
much about evolution. Even though I don't believe in macroevolution, I could
have given better answers than the students included in the movie. More...

Genesis One Code

The Genesis One Code
is an interesting interpretation of Genesis one, based upon some creative
use of extrabiblical sources. In order to reconcile the billions of years
that the universe has existed with the six days of Genesis one, author
Daniel Friedmann converts "human time" into "divine time" and "creation
time." According to Friedmann, a divine day is 1,000 years (Psalm 90:4),
making a "divine year" equal to 365,250 years in "human time." Of course,
Psalm 90:4 also indicates that 1,000 years are like a watch in the night,
being equivalent to only 4 hours. So, one could multiply that number by 6
(or just about any other number).
More...

Biblical creation

Light travel time

One of the most serious scientific problems for young earth creationism is
that of distant starlight and the time it would take that starlight to reach the
earth. The crux of the problem is that light travels at a set speed and nearly
all the objects in the universe are farther from the earth than the young
earth proposed
6,000 year age for the universe. If the young earth model for the universe is
correct, we should not be able to see any other galaxies in the universe or
even the majority of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Obviously, we can see
those objects, so young earth creationists are forced to do something radical with
light travel times. Numerous individuals have proposed that the speed of light
has changed, light was created in transit, light travels infinitely fast when
coming toward the earth, among others. Young earth creationists ignore the
most obvious solution to the problem—light from objects billions of light
years away has been traveling for billions of years. Danny Faulkner of Answers
in Genesis (AiG) says he has a "new" solution to the problem. Let's look at it. More...

Slideshows

Two new slideshows are available. Since both use extensive animations,
make sure you view the slides using PowerPoint's slideshow mode.

The Singularity

Atheists want to create their own form of eternal life and it doesn't
look anything like that found in Christianity. In fact, the things they want
to do with technology should scare every Christian (and even most atheists).
One singulatarian thinks it is okay to completely replace the human species
with artificially intelligent robots. More...

Born Gay?

The news media wants you to believe that sexual orientation is just the
way people are born, like race. In an up-to-date scientific review of the
data on sexual orientation, I go through all the scientific data, including
the data that was never publicized by the secular media. The data clearly
shows that sexual orientation is not genetic and probably not even based
upon biological makeup. More...

Those are the most recent updates and changes since the last e-mail
update. The heavens proclaim His righteousness, and all the peoples see His
glory. (Psalm 97:6)

In Christ,Rich Deem

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